[Vision2020] Fw: What is it with Idahoans and Bathrooms?

[Joseph Campbell]

In case no one else knows, Linda was on NPR today! Pretty cool! Thanks,
Linda! Best, Joe

On 1/5/09 3:49 PM, "Linda Pall" <lpall at moscow.com> wrote:

> Dear Visionaries,
>  
> Here's a comment from the Washington Post that Idahoans around the country
> found interesting today...
> 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/04/AR200901040150
> 4.html
> Here's the bit if you don't want to play digital tag:
>  
> A Lavish Bathroom at Interior
> 
> If Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) is confirmed this month as interior secretary,
> he'll have a snappy, scarcely used bathroom in his fifth-floor office, thanks
> to Dirk Kempthorne, the outgoing secretary.
> 
> Seems Kempthorne spent about $235,000 in taxpayer funds renovating the
> bathroom a few months ago, which included installing a new shower, a
> refrigerator and a freezer and buying monogrammed towels, department officials
> told our colleague Derek Kravitz.
> 
> The General Services Administration approved and partially funded the project,
> an Interior Department official said. The GSA paid about half the cost to
> refurbish aging plumbing, which needed to be replaced within four years.
> 
> But department officials say much of the money was spent on lavish wood
> paneling and tile. Among the choice items found in the new bathroom: wainscot
> wood panels extending from floor to ceiling and cabinet doors revealing a
> working refrigerator and freezer.
> 
> "If Gale Norton needed to shower, at least she was conservative enough to go
> to the gym in the basement of the building," one career employee quipped,
> referring to Kempthorne's predecessor.
> 
> An initial investigation by the department's inspector general, Earl B.
> Devaney, found no wrongdoing on the secretary's part because the GSA had
> approved the project.
> 
> Copyright 2009 The Washington Post
> 
> 
> 
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